It's called the "Product Use Rights" document available from either your eOpen.microsoft or licensing.microsoft website. I know I'm going to sound like a prick for saying this, but if you actually *READ* the documents before you sign your agreements you'd know and understand your rights. As many have said before Open License agreements for Operating Systems have be "Upgrade" only for quite some time. Furthermore, you better read that agreement to determine what licenses are valid to Upgrade from. It is not valid to purchase a system with Vista HOME and assign a Vista Business license to it, for example. Open agreement licenses are never "tied" to the hardware, but as someone else said, they are "assigned". You can always move that assignment so long as the original license on the new hardware meets requirements.
-----Original Message----- From: Amer Karim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 3:40 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: VISTA open or volume license SKU's Hmmm...is there any official MS documentation that states that a Vista VL associated with a qualifying OEM license is transferable to a new system with a qualifying OEM license? Our rep's are saying it's not, the qualifying license has to be a retail license otherwise the Vista VL is tied to the hardware as well. I can't find any MS document which either supports or contradicts them. Regards, Amer Karim Nautilis Information Systems -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: March-25-08 6:19 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: VISTA open or volume license SKU's On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:11 PM, Amer Karim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been given to understand that we can use the OEM license > as a qualifying license to purchase the Vista upgrade VL ... For that computer, yes. OEM licenses are "married for life" to the computer they are bundled with. > ... when we retire the computer we would also have to retire the Vista VL > attached to that system, including the SA for that license ... My understanding is that the VL is still transferable to other computers, but the other computers would still need an OEM or FPP license to be legal for the VL. SA I don't know about (don't use it). -- Ben ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~ ~ Upgrade to Next Generation Antispam/Antivirus with Ninja! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbelt-software.com/SunbeltMessagingNinja.cfm> ~
